Pain and suffering are standard considerations to add onto an Illinois medical malpractice and in this case likely refers to the additional surgeries and procedures the patient
needed as a result of the medical negligence.
Not exact matches
The only time the foster home would be responsible for
medical expenses is if the dog
needed medical attention
as a
result of their
negligence.
As a
result, a lot
of work goes into proving there was
negligence and a breach
of care by the other party This is because the potential compensation the victim and his or her family can get is much higher, because they would
need it for long - term
medical expenses.
At Altman & Altman LLP, we specialize in personal injury cases that happened
as a
result of negligence, and have over 40 years
of experience getting those who were injured the financial recompense that they
need to pay their
medical bills, restore funds lost from missed time at work and, in the worst cases, the costs
of funeral and burial services.
For example, while ordinary
medical mistakes by a
medical doctor such
as confusing two drugs with similar names or putting the decimal point in a prescription dosage, causing harm to a patient, would not ordinarily
result in criminal liability, coming into an operating room while too drunk to drive and without reviewing which limb
of a patient
needs to be amputated despite a clear indication in marker on the leg
of a patient showing that fact, might constitute criminal
negligence on the part
of a
medical doctor.